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Bron 7
Continued from Chapter 6: Bron-6 | ABCtales Chapter 7 The brakes thumped on the final time on the five-hour journey. The night had closed in at...
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Bron-6
Continued from Chapter 5: Bron-5 | ABCtales Chapter 6 The lounge in the Maryfield Senior Home was dark, save for a small pool of light from a small...
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Bron-5
Continued from Chapter 4: Bron-4 | ABCtales Chapter 5 It had been a long walk in the dark from Edgware Road to Willesden. At meal break, she’d ask...
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Bron-4
Continued from Chapter 3: Bron-3 | ABCtales Chapter 4 Bron peered at Mon Despoir ’s menu. “Liver with marmalade? Must be having a laugh.” “It’s not...
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Bron-3
Continued from Chapter 2: Bron-2 | ABCtales Chapter 3 Linda arrived home at six at the small flat, on the corner of Great Cumberland Place and George...
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Perhaps it already is. Do you
Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2025
Perhaps it already is. Do you think they'd tell us if it was?
Read full commentPosted in The Harvest Floor (Chapter Three)
That image is fine - couldn't
Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2025
That image is fine - couldn't have done better myself. Glad to see you got one of the North Anglesey Coast on a relatively calm day - we don't want to be accused of exaggerating, do we?
Read full commentPosted in Welsh Lessons-4
The world needs more cat
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
The world needs more cat stories. It would be a better place. At least, that's what Lulu and Sasha tell me...
Read full commentPosted in The Cat Krampus Campus (and Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing)
All credit to him for going
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2026
All credit to him for going back to his roots in Nigeria; many sports people with his sort of money would choose to spend all their time in their luxury London homes.
You take a chance every time you venture onto an African road.
Read full commentPosted in Oluwafemi Olaseni.
I always say, if you can only
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
I always say, if you can only keep one part of your body warm, heat your feet. That was the principle behind the old railway foot-warmers, before the days of proper heating in train carriages. Big cans filled with hot water that you could hire at...
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Biblical
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
"...Priyatelkata and I went there to fetch water in earthenware pots that we carried on our heads, hoping to meet Bob Geldof along the way. Goats grazing at the roadside ran away from us because of the terrible smell..."
It sounds biblical...
Read full commentPosted in Nor Any Drop to Drink
Autumn - my favourite season?
Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025
'And soon to go' - You capture the transitoriness of the seasons and life in general so well.
Read full commentPosted in Farewell Glows
Glad to see someone else names their cars
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
Glad to see someone else names their cars - Fionnuala the Fiat, meet Gertie the VW and Hilda the BMW.
I spent a night and a day in Strabane, just over the border in the late 1980s. It was...interesting.
Read full commentPosted in Shillelagh Shopping
Running amok
Posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2025
I too have been accused of Wonton behaviour in the food aisle...
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In the best traditions of Victorian hymnists
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Written in the best traditions of Victorian hymnists (if that's the right word). Perhaps the style is due for a revival...
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